Hmmnn Quotes & Sayings

The sun was up, the neighborhood waking. I wiped my face clean with the back of my sleeve, the warming air soft on my wet cheeks. A prayer welled up within me, a new kind of prayer. I was done begging God to forgive me for being too bitter, too needy, too egotistical, too tired. Repenting one day for being too much, the next for not being enough.

Now I clearly understood my real offence against heaven: the stubborn refusal that every failing that I had - from the first - had been forgiven. — Bethany Pierce

Silicon-based life may be impossible for one other reason: silicon bonds readily dissolve in water. — Steven Johnson

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the small and feel of all those books. — Laurie R. King

If I could wake all of the women of Asia, India could be won in a day. — Mahatma Gandhi

A world without open country would be universal jail. — Edward Abbey

Many flatter themselves and consider themselves to be good, humble, and meek, but they will discover the contrary under temptation. Do not not become despondent in temptations, then, but give all the more thanks to God that He thus brings you to what is hidden in your heart - the knowledge of yourself - and wishes you to be corrected and be saved. — Tikhon Of Zadonsk

... The world could change in an instant, and she needed to be mindful of where she was, to live with intention, to always recognize the deliberateness of love. — Deborah Reed

I feel like a semi-single mum. — Elizabeth Hurley

Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility? — Richard Russo

JAMES: Apart from the Thestrals. Watch out for the Thestrals. ALBUS: I thought they were invisible! HARRY: Listen to your professors, don't listen to James, and remember to enjoy yourself. Now, if you don't want this train to leave without you, you should leap on . . . LILY: I'm going to chase the train out. GINNY: Lily, come straight back. HERMIONE: Rose. Remember to send Neville our love. — John Tiffany

...[H]uman reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way. — Immanuel Kant

The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method. — Julian Assange

When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth. — Seno Gumira Ajidarma